Pros: I am conservative in my ratings, I think this could be better, features/limitations: 3 stars, the price gives it 5 stars. Best bang for the buck when I bought it, so 4 stars. Would certanly buy again. NAS for those who don't need another "project." Relatively simple to setup and use. Don't have to be a geek to figure it out. Plug in a newer USB UPS automatically enables HDD write caching and tells you how much uptime the UPS has avail. Sustained transfer of 280MB and 2.6GB file 33Mb/s (Win7), fast enough for HDV files to not stutter. I have tried this as a print server on HP 1200 laser and Epson Stylus Photo 1400. Both worked ok, with caveats. Supplied retrospect software works so well, you'd only notice the backups when you look in the Retrospect folder on the NAS. Can do full file or incermental backups. Integrates into Active directory auth or simple password or none. Seems like a good choice for budget limited small office.

Cons: No hot swap Adding drive(s) requires deletion of all data. If you dont plan on putting four identical drives in, be sure to read the FAQ on Intel's site. E-Sata is only for additional storage, NAS cannot be used as e-sata drive directly from the PC. Unit is on Intel's discontinued items list (March '10) Bluetooth only saves to limited locations. Using as media streamer not practical, as the structure of listings is flat file, no listings of directory heirarchy. I have 2000 AV files, probably never finish scrolling. If you can figure out how to tame this I am interested.

Overall Review: Case is so sturdy would probably stop bullets. About 10lbs with drives. BAout size of 4 large laptops stacked up. 50 watt consumption with 4x1TB Samsung 103 Eco-Green's. Can support Axiom Camera's, if you want to use it as security camera recording device. I got this in Nov 2009 and had problems using the supplied software with Windows 7. Intel support was prompt, accurate and easily understood. You need to first deinstall and then update the PC software, then update the firmware on the NAS. Also had to push the paper clip reset button. Print server: Except for a $350 HP print server connected to HP Color laserjet, I have never had a USB print server provide extended functions such as ink levels. (Maybe I am too cheap?) Also found print servers do not play well with 3in1 printers for anything beyond basic printing. So I can't hang this on this NAS. Would be nice if the drive letters were pushed out to pc's that connect to the unit automatically.

Pros: Inexpensive, compact, realatively well designed insofar as functionality.

Cons: My 1TB drive ran so hot, it caused it to fail. I have only three drives in the cage. Once I took it out of the cage it worked normally (whew!!), drive was almost too hot to touch, indicating insufficient airflow inside cage, despite the fans which were working.

Overall Review: Returing unit, as I cannot be comfident it won't cause other issues. Too bad, as everything else was very good. I own two of their rackmount cases and generally like their products, as they are moderately priced. Too bad they struck out on this.

Pros: Nice concept.

Cons: Does not work for me. Mounts and dismounts askes to format any drive placed in the bay. Rating 3, as unit may be ok, but they bought into myth of USB3 stability. See comments. I messed around with this in my minimal spare time and now too late to return. I really needed this to work.

Overall Review: I think this is more me being another victim of poor USB 3 design. I started with the Renesas chipset based USB 3 card and could not get this or my WD USB 3 2TB Mybook to work reliably. The WD would dissappear and the USB 3 mounted HDD would mount/dismount repeatedly asking if I wanted to format it. Even installing on known stable USB 2 ports it would do the same thing. Mobo is Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme E Rev 1.0 with running Win7-64, fully patched. I changed USB cards to SIIG USB 3.0 4-Port PCIe i/e Model JU-P40212-S1 which mounts the WD Mybook ok, although it's only about 50MB/s copy speed. I still have the same mount/dismount/format issues on Syba making it unusable. I know the drives are ok as I plugged them int to the mobo controller. In fairness, I'm not sure Syba is to blame, I think it's more a unbaked USB 3 spec foisted on the public. I wish I had the option to use eSATA, but did not. I'd stay away from USB 3 unless you have lots of freetime to be an unpaid beta tester.

Pros: +Comfort- Wear on top of ear and barely notice it. +Call Quality better than my phone. +Pairs reliably and stays connected. Pairs with Panasonic BT home phone too and works quite well. +Pairs with two phones concurrently, though not sure what happens if I get two calls. +Noise cancellation superb, No one notices if I'm driving, in a noisy server room, grocery store etc. They say they hear my voice just fine. I may have to plug the off-ear, but I can hear them very clearly as well. Remarkable.

Cons: -6 Hour battery life on stby. -Non-Replaceable battery. Wonder if the battery will die before the ear wax gets it? -Mute button difficult to access. -Volume controls could use some surface dots to let you know which is up/down. -Be nice if it came with a small storage box so it doesn't get crunched in my briefcase or pocket.

Overall Review: I was surprised such a large object hanging over my ear would not become a major annoyance after a couple of hours, but find I can wear it longer than the battery lasts. I may shift to the other ear. I had bought other ones that go into the canal but found they made my ear sore and could not wear them very long. I usually rest the ear canal part on the lobe and stuff the earbud in the canal in noisy places.

Pros: Really noticably faster than any other hard drive used. Processes that would pause for extended hard drive reads, now go quickly. Laptop upgrade kit actually works. Magician software is surprisingly NOT crapware... works well to benchmark and do other tasks indicated.

Cons: Higher price, but it's really quality and IMO worth it.

Overall Review: Comes with USB to SATA (non-powerd) and Ghost (single user), but workd to fine to move my data. Had to fiddle with some bootup settings, but otherwise worked fine. I bought the thinnest form factor, figuring I'd future-proof. Kit includes a shim for the 11mm bay, so I didn't have to make one. I would not buy ANY SSD if you were on SATA II and not planning on upgrading the controller anytime soon. I don't think the benefit is there. On SATA III it's like a rocket. Overall a quality kit and really glad I bought this.

Pros: Fastest card in my inventory (trancend, Kingston) even compared to other class 10 cards. Comes with certificate for de-corruption software. Never had issues, so not had to use it.

Cons: Relatively expensive. However, to put in perspective, I use this on vacation and shoot over 2000 photos, all irreplaceable. If you ask yourself how much you pay to go on the trip and what the cost/hassle of carrying another backup solution is, the price is not so bad IMO.

Overall Review: Our company laptop has an SD slot and a user wanted to backup a very large file (10gb outlook PST) on a regular basis. I wrote a script to copy the file but it would never complete using a PNY class 4 card. Copy speed started out fast then was unacceptable within 60 seconds. I tested using this card and the copy was constant 14-20 Mb/s and completed several times without issue. Seems sustained writes is a factor too. Told user to return the PNY.